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CIA

Definition: CIA

CIA

Noun

1. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest; under the supervision of the National Security Council.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

"CIA" is a common misspelling or typo for: ciao, cyan.


Abbreviations & Acronyms: CIA

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

CIA

EnglishCentral Intelligence AgencyN/A

CIA

ItalianCorte permanente di arbitratoN/A

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonym: CIA

Synonym: Central Intelligence Agency (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: CIA

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Government

Office of the president, office of the prime minister, cabinet; senate, house of representatives, parliament; council; courts, supreme court; state, interior, labor, health and human services, defense, education, agriculture, justice, commerce, treasury; Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI; Central Intelligence Agency, CIA; National Institutes of Health, NIH; Postal Service, Post Office; Federal Aviation Administration, FAA.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: CIA

English words defined with "CIA": tradecraftunearth. (references)
Non-English Usage: "CIA" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Esperanto (your), Scottish (how much, whence : cia meud, which? what? : cia as, who).

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Modern Usage: CIA

DomainUsage

Lyrics

So the CIA decided they wanted Roland dead (Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner; performing artist: Warren Zevon; writing credit: Warren Zevon & David Lindell c. 1976 Zevon Music, BMI)

Movie/TV Titles

Xerife & Cia. Shazan (1972)

A Kis Cia katonái (1922)

1st Testament CIA Vengeance (2001)

Inside the CIA (1987)

Badía y Cia (1987)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: CIA

DomainTitle

References

  • CBC CIA Brasileira de Cartuchos: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Cia Bandeirantes de Armazens gerais: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Cia Cacique de Cafe Soluvel: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Cia Colombiana de Tejidos - Coltejer: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Cia de Consumidores de Gas de Santiago: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Killing Hope: U. S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II (reference)

  • The Company: A Novel of the CIA (reference)

  • The Mafia, CIA and George Bush (reference)

  • Wedge: From Pearl Harbor to 9/11: How the Secret War Between the CIA and FBI Has Endangered National Security (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  • CIA II: Target Alexa (reference)

  • Cia Trackdown (reference)

  • Top Secret Missions of the CIA - Cloak & Dagger Diplomat/ Clean House (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: CIA

Computer Images:
CIA

More pictures...

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Photo Album: CIA

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

Die Demokratie muss gelegentlich in Blut gebadet werden : Junta-Chef Pinchot im Auftrag von ITT, CIA, Kennecott Copper Corp. u.a. : Solidaritat mit Chile. Credit: Library of Congress.

Vote Socialist Workers : billions for jobs, not war, stop FBI and CIA crimes, desegregate the schools, defend abortion rights. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: CIA

SubjectTopicQuote

Trade

Argentina

It currently has 110 users, all first line companies, such as Minera Alumbrera Ltd., Bucyrus (U.S.), Abraservice (France), Esco (U.S.), Commercial Hill (Chile), Railcars Heavy Corp (Scania), Compania Azucarera Concepcion S.A., Citromax S.A., Citrusvil, Tensolie S.A., Bacco y Cia. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: CIA

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Andy Rooney

Well, the FBI and the CIA have been inept at an awful lot of things for a great many years, and it just took something like this to reveal it to the American public.

Fred Thompson

I don't know, Bob, but I'll tell you this. I am very concerned about our intelligence community. Our counterintelligence capabilities, our counterterrorism capabilities are not what they should be. There needs to be major reform in the CIA and the FBI.

John McCain

You know, I do not know, because I still don't know what the CIA did or didn't do. I am concerned, and I think most people are concerned, about the lack of coordination between agencies, the failure to work together to share information.

Robert Novak

Mr. Chairman, it's generally agreed that the war in Afghanistan is a CIA show, run by the CIA with the military providing assets.

Rush Limbaugh

Vice President Dick Cheney and CIA Director George Tenet briefed the top Congressional leaders on this information, but Tom Daschle remains unconvinced.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: CIA

"CIA" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "CIA" is used about 587 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)100%58710,802

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: CIA

CountryNameCountryName
Brazil

CBC CIA Brasileira de Cartuchos

Chile

Cia de Consumidores de Gas de Santiago

Colombia

Cia Colombiana de Tejidos - Coltejer

Peru

Cia Industrial Nuevo Mundo

Venezuela

Dominguez y Cia SA

 (more examples...)  

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expressions: CIA

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "CIA": cia-backed, cia-based, cia-contract, cia-organised, cia-sponsored, cia-types.

Ending with "CIA": ex-cia, Pcm-cia.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: CIA

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

cia

4,505

agency central cia intelligence

23

cia world fact book

1,438

book cia cia.gov fact publication

22

cia fact book

936

canada cia

21

cia job

99

cia wallpaper

20

book cia world

70

cia headquarters

18

cia commander

67

cia history

18

2002 book cia fact world

46

book cia fact index.html odci.gov publication

18

cia world fact

43

cia noc

18

cia training

43

cia secret

18

cia agent

39

cia country

17

cia site web

38

cia g.com

17

cia director

38

cia seal

17

cia fact

35

career cia

16

cia employment

34

cia recruitment

16

cia map

34

book cia fact odci.gov publication

16

cia logo

34

book cia worldfact

15

cia farm

28

cia exam

15

cia home page

27

cia employment job

14

cia government

26

2003 book cia fact world

14

cia world

24

cia join

14
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: CIA

Language Translations for "CIA"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

中央情 局 (Central Intelligence Agency). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

ザ行 (Central Intelligence Agency, Classification for Japanese verb with the dictionary form ending in "zu", Shia). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

シーアイエー (Central Intelligence Agency). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

iacay

   

Portuguese

  

Agência Central De Inteligência (central intelligence agency). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

цру. (various references)

   

Scottish

  

c' (ce, for co, where?). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

Agencia Central De Intelegencia (central intelligence agency). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: CIA

Derivations

Words beginning with "CIA": ciao. (additional references)

Words ending with "CIA": acacia, aecia, alopecia, androecia, apothecia, boccia, breccia, dystocia, endothecia, episcia, estancia, facia, fascia, focaccia, gynaecia, gynecia, gynoecia, indicia, osteomalacia, paramecia, perithecia, simplicia, uncia, valencia, zoecia, zooecia. (additional references)

Words containing "CIA": acacias, academician, academicians, acciaccatura, acciaccaturas, acciaccature, acoustician, acousticians, aecial, aesthetician, aestheticians, alopecias, altricial, amerciable, annunciate, annunciated, annunciates, annunciating, annunciation, annunciations, annunciator, annunciators, annunciatory, anticommercial, anticommercialism, anticommercialisms, antisocial, antisocialist, antisocialists, antisocially, apothecial, appreciable, appreciably, appreciate, appreciated, appreciates, appreciating, appreciation, appreciations, appreciative, appreciatively, appreciativeness, appreciativenesses, appreciator, appreciators, appreciatory, arithmetician, arithmeticians, artificial, artificialities, artificiality. (additional references)


Misspellings

"CIA" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Caac, Caig, Ceao, Ceea, Cega, Ceka, Chiah, Chiyah, Ciam, Ciec, Cifad, Ciga, Ciim, Ciip, Ciir, Cij, Cipa, Cisa, Csie, Cyfa, Cyg, Cyh, Iaa, Kcie, Lciii, Ociam, Qia, Rcia, Xia. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: CIA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-i"

-1 letter: ai.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-i"
 

+1 letter: acid, asci, cadi, caid, cain, chia, ciao, laic, mica, pica.

 

+2 letters: abaci, acari, acids, acidy, acing, acini, acmic, acrid, actin, aecia, aitch, alcid, amice, amici, amnic, antic, areic, asdic, aspic, attic, aulic, auric, azoic, baric, basic, cabin, cacti, cadis, caids, cains, caird, cairn, calif, calix, campi, canid, carpi, cavie, cavil, ceiba, ceria, chain, chair, chiao, chias, china, cigar, cilia, circa, claim, clavi, coati, cobia, coria, curia, daric, dicta, erica, facia, farci, gamic, ileac, iliac, laich, laics, lilac, linac, mafic, magic, malic, manic, micas, micra, naric, nicad, panic, pical, picas, plica, rabic, saice, salic, spica, tacit, tical, triac, umiac, uncia, vatic, vicar, vinca.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: CIA


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 49 41

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.-.    ..    .-

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01001001 01000001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#73 &#65

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0049 0041

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

374335

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Non-English Dictionaries with "CIA"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Chinese

字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , チフス菌 , チャイニーズ , chinês, китайский, китаец, chino

Japanese Kanji

辭典 , 辞典 , 字引 , 辞林 , 字書 , ディーゼル電気車 , 言海 , 辞彙 , 辞書 , 確定 , ディーゼル電気車 , デ'ドロ酢酸 , 翻訳 日語 , 日语, 日本 , 日文 , 倭 , 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", japonês, японский, японец, japonés

Japanese Katakana

じい, じびき, じて", ディクショナリー , じり", じしょ, '"かい, ディクショナリ , デフィニション , ディフィニション , ていぎ, かくてい, へい"ういどう, やくじゅつ, トランスレーション , やくしょ, やくしゅつ, "うどく, ほ"やく, ほ"やくしょ日語 , 日语, 日本 , 日文 , 倭 , 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", japonês, японский, японец, japonés

Portuguese

dicionário, definição, tradução葡萄牙語 , 葡萄牙人 , 葡萄牙语, ポルトガル語 , ポルトガル", português, португальский, portugués

Russian

словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение俄語 , 俄文 , 俄语, ロシア語 , ロシア", русский, ruso

Scottish

foclair, abardair, faclair, briathrachan苏 兰, escocês, шотландский, escocés

Spanish

diccionario, definición, traducción西班牙語 , 西班牙文 , 西班牙语, スペイン語 , スパイ罪 , スペイン", スパニッシュ , espanhol, испанский, español

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translation英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , inglês, английский, beurla, inglés
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Non-fiction
9. Quotations: Spoken
10. Usage Frequency
11. Names: Company Usage
12. Expressions
13. Expressions: Internet
14. Translations: Modern
15. Abbreviations
16. Acronyms
17. Derivations
18. Anagrams
19. Orthography
20. Bibliography


  

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